Comment: Interdisciplinarity? A definite maybe

Interdisciplinarity: A Critical Assessment

This article draws together disparate research and theorizing on interdisciplinarity. We first describe widespread efforts to promote interdisciplinarity in U.S. universities and critically examine the assumptions underlying these initiatives. Next, we present a cross-sectional view of interdisciplinary communication, knowledge diffusion, research assessment, and interdisciplinary research cent...

Maybe CHI

We describe an experiment in combining multiple interactive media in one collaborative system. While our system supports context–based display of content, it also supports synchronous awareness between visitors using PDA, hypermedia and VR systems. We are also exploring multiple scales of location: buildings on a street, rooms within a building, and spaces within a room. We describe the design ...

New Medicine Based on New Biology: Maybe Yes, Maybe No

For them, traditional biologists and medical scientists committed a gross scientific error by overlooking quantum physics as being too weird, mind bending and unpredictable for biological systems. The basis of quantum physics is that, at the sub-atomic level, matter does not exist with certainty. It only exists as a tendency to exist in particle or wave form as maybe yes or maybe no. This appli...

Probiotics for antibiotic-associated diarrhea--maybe, maybe not!

duced the risk of severe necrotizing enterocolitis and mortality in preterm infants [5, 6] . The potential benefits and safety profile of probiotics for extremely low birth weight infants have not yet been determined. The treatment of gastrointestinal infections continues to be one of the main targets of probiotics use, aimed at the prevention of community-acquired diarrhea as well as an effect...

Interdisciplinarity in Osteogenesis Imperfecta